Just Back from Iraq: Observations of a Weapons Inspector
Rocco Casagrande was the chief of the Biological Analysis Lab for the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) from December 2002 to March 2003. He gives a detailed account of the daily activities of inspectors, and the processes involved in determining, for example, if a brewery is really a brewery, or a front for chemica
Counting the Dead in Iraq
It’s no wonder there was an outcry when Gilbert Burnham’s group released its report on mortality in Iraq. The numbers of civilian deaths so overwhelmed body counts calculated by other groups that many were stunned or disbelieving, and Burnham earned the enmity of some U.S. and Iraqi government officials.
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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq
The Bush administration began its “great misuse of history” shortly after 9/11, says
John Dower, when it seized upon Japan’s 1941 Pearl Harbor attack as a useful analogy, a way to promote its own invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation. Dower views as simplistic these “popular hooks to history
The Nokia Devices and Services business + Microsoft = One Team Today we're announcing that the Nokia Devices and Services business will become one team with Microsoft. Steve Guggenheimer and Bryan Biniak tell us more about how the teams will come together and double down on a commitment to developers. It will be exciting for all of us to see the innovation that this integration between software and hardware will deliver in the coming years.
Virtual Maths, Cuboid - Excavation Video
Video of excavation in progress, (for use with excavation quizzes 1 and 2) or your own purposes
Elon Musk at Kresge - Tesla Car and StarX
During the AeroAstro100 3-day Seminar, Elon Musk spoke to a over-packed Kresge Auditorium about the Tesla, his open-hardware, successful electric car, and the importance of manufacturing in the USA. ABout the need for technically educated people in the workplace who have heart, and the relative unimportance of people with MBAs. About his 1- Gigawatt battery factory in Louisiana and the potential need for 200 of them once the electic car is fully ramped up. About StarX and his rocket voyages to t
Ron Paul on Capitol Hill
[Editor’s Note: This is a transcript from Jeff Deist’s interview with Tom Woods on June 3, 2014.]
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I want to talk about the time you spent as Ron Paul’s chief of staff. I can’t imagine that could b
Veterans Day; HackDuke: The Week at Duke {in 60 Seconds}
Welcome to the Week at Duke University in 60 Seconds.
Tuesday was Veterans Day, and the Duke community commemorated the event with a gathering outside of Duke Chapel, featuring Duke’s ROTC units and retired Marine Corps Major Mike Snyder, who’s now a safety manager at Duke.
http://today.duke.edu/2014/11/veteransdayphoto
A new study from Duke shows that people tend to think there is not a problem, such as global warming, if they disagree with the policy solutions. The article appears in the
Version Control with Git for beginners
Version Control with Git for beginners
Enhancing graduate inter-cultural capability and embedding Internationalisation of the Curriculum at
From implicit to explicit: Enhancing graduate inter-cultural capability and embedding IoC at Griffith Universlty, Australia.
Professor Michelle Barker of Griffith University, Brisbane Australia and Dr Viv Caruana of CAPRI, Leeds Met University UK discuss recent work in embedding internationalisation of the curriculum across the full range of disciplines and programmes of study at Griffith. Professor Barker also shares insights from a recent ALTC-funded project focused on intercultural or cross-
1.203J Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods (MIT)
The class will cover quantitative techniques of Operations Research with emphasis on applications in transportation systems analysis (urban, air, ocean, highway, pick-up and delivery systems) and in the planning and design of logistically oriented urban service systems (e.g., fire and police departments, emergency medical services, emergency repair services). It presents a unified study of functions of random variables, geometrical probability, multi-server queueing theory, spatial location theo
Developing Universal Windows Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox In this episode, Robert is joined by Navit Saxena, who demonstrates building Universal Windows Apps with Visual Studio 2015. Navit reviews how to install the Windows 10 tooling, create adaptive apps, build UI for different device families and use platform and 3rd-party extension SDKs.
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12 illegal miners rescued in South Africa, others stay underground
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Feb. 16 - Twelve illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned gold mine near Johannesburg. Others remain underground and are believed to fear arrest. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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Why study medieval literature? Arthur Bahr answers this question.
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All smiles as U.S. delegation meets Cuba's Catholic Cardinal
It was all smiles as Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi led a delegation to meet with Cuba's Catholic Cardinal, as U.S. lawmakers outline Congressional hurdles to rapprochement. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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Reuters tells the world's stories like no one else. As the largest international multimedia news provider, Reuters provides coverage around the globe and across topics including b
Embedding the concept of competency maps
This presentation outlines the background, context and transferability of a competency mapping tool originally developed in health but suitable for enterprise
18.04 Complex Variables with Applications (MIT)
This course explored topics such as complex algebra and functions, analyticity, contour integration, Cauchy's theorem, singularities, Taylor and Laurent series, residues, evaluation of integrals, multivalued functions, potential theory in two dimensions, Fourier analysis and Laplace transforms.
European Financial Integration Report
This report is produced annually by the European Commission. 'The main body of the report is devoted to the economic analysis of European financial integration and to the related impact on market structures, competition, efficiency, innovation and stability.' Press releases also appear on this website, with updates on financial integration in the EU. These report on business climate and economic sentiment indicators, plus news of financial investigations of companies and monitoring. The actual
World Federation of Exchanges
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) is the trade association of 52 publicly regulated stock, futures and options exchanges, including the FTSE, Nasdaq OMX, NYSE Euronext etc. The Federation website includes over 10 years of market statistics, business news, a monthly newsletter, Annual Reports, research reports, details of standards / best practices, information about WFE events / conferences and more on the workings of the WFE. It also includes information on the International Options Marke
6.4.2 A broad view of technology This dual nature is not because machines or chemicals are inherently good or bad; it arises from the way societies decide to use them (or not). This makes sense if you take a broad view of technology, outlined at the beginning of this Introduction. This is the understanding that technology, and it's uses from artefacts to infrastructure, is the product of human and social action. It is a major driver of the development of societies and their economies, but the forms and directions thes
